Academic Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,639 3,882 5,355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.46% 6.71% 6.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.86% 24.61% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,924 2,391 3,276
10th Percentile £215 £260 £275
25th Percentile £388 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +4.04%
75th Percentile £631 £663 £625
90th Percentile £750 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £450
% change year-on-year +4.55% +6.28% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 235 273
10th Percentile £14.04 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.24 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.80 £76.50 £64.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.78% +28.57% -9.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,062 15,771 18,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.38% 27.24% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,064 10,528 12,395
10th Percentile £307 £330 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £627
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,069 814 765
10th Percentile £13.82 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.45 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +2.12%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +10 3,121 £510 -6.42% 7,076
UK excluding London +11 1,854 £500 +4.55% 5,018
London +8 1,416 £525 -8.70% 2,343
Work from Home +19 1,322 £525 +0.96% 2,683
South East +15 504 £500 - 1,225
North of England +21 415 £475 - 1,153
South West +5 261 £528 -4.09% 664
Midlands +11 249 £411 -13.58% 907
North West +6 237 £500 +11.11% 665
Scotland +13 198 £475 +13.77% 326
East of England +6 179 £500 - 715
West Midlands +9 157 £488 +2.63% 565
Yorkshire +26 128 £450 -13.25% 359
East Midlands +10 91 £255 -46.32% 341
North East +33 48 £513 +83.04% 149
Wales +6 35 £530 +0.95% 137
Northern Ireland +10 24 £400 - 67

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 138 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 127 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 102 (2.80%) Confluence
4 25 (0.69%) CMS
5 20 (0.55%) Apache
6 19 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.47%) SAS
8 14 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 11 (0.30%) IIS
10 10 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
10 10 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 6 (0.16%) Drupal
11 6 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.16%) WordPress
12 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.11%) nginx
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 416 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
2 314 (8.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 266 (7.31%) Chatbot
4 175 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 100 (2.75%) MS Visio
6 84 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.02%) Simulink
8 29 (0.80%) Photoshop
8 29 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
9 17 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
10 16 (0.44%) Acrobat
11 13 (0.36%) Sketch
12 12 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 11 (0.30%) Stateflow
14 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
14 8 (0.22%) Trello
15 7 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
15 7 (0.19%) Revit
15 7 (0.19%) SPSS
16 6 (0.16%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 52 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
6 12 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
6 12 (0.33%) Teamcenter
7 11 (0.30%) Endur
7 11 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 8 (0.22%) ION MarketView
9 8 (0.22%) Magento
9 8 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 587 (16.13%) Azure
2 314 (8.63%) AWS
3 236 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
4 162 (4.45%) Power Platform
5 147 (4.04%) GCP
6 120 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (2.23%) SaaS
8 75 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (1.84%) GitHub
10 60 (1.65%) Entra ID
11 57 (1.57%) PowerApps
12 51 (1.40%) PaaS
13 48 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
13 48 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 41 (1.13%) Serverless
15 39 (1.07%) OCI
16 37 (1.02%) IaaS
17 29 (0.80%) Snowflake
18 27 (0.74%) Figma
18 27 (0.74%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 157 (4.31%) Firewall
2 109 (3.00%) DNS
3 96 (2.64%) LAN
4 90 (2.47%) WAN
5 86 (2.36%) DHCP
6 62 (1.70%) VPN
7 57 (1.57%) TCP/IP
8 55 (1.51%) SSL
9 53 (1.46%) Network Security
10 49 (1.35%) SAN
11 45 (1.24%) VoIP
12 43 (1.18%) Ethernet
13 41 (1.13%) Internet
14 36 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (0.85%) Wireless
16 27 (0.74%) VLAN
17 20 (0.55%) MPLS
18 19 (0.52%) BGP
18 19 (0.52%) Skype
19 18 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 125 (3.44%) Power BI
3 68 (1.87%) Tableau
4 66 (1.81%) Relational Database
5 64 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
7 53 (1.46%) Big Data
8 52 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 51 (1.40%) MySQL
10 45 (1.24%) Metadata
11 40 (1.10%) NoSQL
12 28 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.66%) Data Mining
13 24 (0.66%) MongoDB
14 21 (0.58%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.52%) Hadoop
15 19 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
16 17 (0.47%) GIS
17 15 (0.41%) Couchbase
18 14 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 218 (5.99%) JIRA
2 141 (3.87%) Git
3 68 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.26%) GitLab
5 40 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 23 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 21 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.47%) Selenium
10 16 (0.44%) Gradle
10 16 (0.44%) Subversion
11 13 (0.36%) webpack
12 12 (0.33%) JUnit
13 11 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
14 10 (0.27%) Maven
15 9 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
16 8 (0.22%) Postman
16 8 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,594 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 774 (21.27%) Finance
3 744 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 307 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 204 (5.61%) Telecoms
6 193 (5.30%) Banking
7 190 (5.22%) Marketing
8 159 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
9 146 (4.01%) Legal
10 124 (3.41%) Manufacturing
11 114 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
12 106 (2.91%) Retail
13 98 (2.69%) Electronics
14 95 (2.61%) Front Office
15 72 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
16 68 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
17 51 (1.40%) Law
18 50 (1.37%) Aerospace
18 50 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
18 50 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 549 (15.09%) Developer
2 462 (12.70%) Analyst
3 368 (10.11%) Architect
4 309 (8.49%) Senior
5 262 (7.20%) Software Developer
6 213 (5.85%) Business Analyst
6 213 (5.85%) Project Manager
7 189 (5.19%) Lead
8 168 (4.62%) Consultant
9 125 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
10 107 (2.94%) Software Engineer
11 82 (2.25%) Support Engineer
12 76 (2.09%) Designer
13 62 (1.70%) Network Engineer
14 58 (1.59%) DevOps Engineer
15 55 (1.51%) Java Developer
16 53 (1.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (1.43%) Data Analyst
18 51 (1.40%) Administrator
18 51 (1.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (5.94%) HTML
2 107 (2.94%) .NET
3 97 (2.67%) CSS
4 86 (2.36%) React
4 86 (2.36%) Web Services
5 82 (2.25%) REST
6 60 (1.65%) XML
7 54 (1.48%) AngularJS
8 41 (1.13%) Kafka
9 40 (1.10%) RESTful
10 38 (1.04%) JSON
10 38 (1.04%) Spring
11 32 (0.88%) .NET Framework
12 31 (0.85%) Middleware
13 29 (0.80%) Node.js
14 28 (0.77%) Pandas
15 27 (0.74%) ASP.NET
16 24 (0.66%) NumPy
17 21 (0.58%) ARM Templates
18 20 (0.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 277 (7.61%) Management Information System
2 196 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
3 114 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 111 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 100 (2.75%) PKI
6 82 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 65 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 64 (1.76%) Derivative
9 58 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 55 (1.51%) FPGA
11 52 (1.43%) VHDL
11 52 (1.43%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.18%) Fixed Income
13 41 (1.13%) Onboarding
14 39 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
14 39 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
15 37 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
16 35 (0.96%) Clustering
16 35 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
16 35 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 378 (10.39%) Windows
2 200 (5.50%) Linux
3 118 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 111 (3.05%) Unix
5 97 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 52 (1.43%) Android
7 47 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 41 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 40 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (0.99%) Windows 7
11 20 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 20 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.38%) Windows XP
13 13 (0.36%) Solaris
14 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
16 9 (0.25%) VMS
17 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
17 8 (0.22%) Windows 8
18 7 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (31.99%) Computer Science
2 966 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
3 776 (21.32%) Agile
4 552 (15.17%) Project Management
5 395 (10.85%) Software Engineering
6 355 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 330 (9.07%) DevOps
8 312 (8.57%) Analytics
9 306 (8.41%) Code Quality
10 304 (8.35%) ITIL
11 281 (7.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 278 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 266 (7.31%) Conversational UI
14 256 (7.03%) Decision-Making
15 243 (6.68%) Migration
16 229 (6.29%) Roadmaps
17 219 (6.02%) Project Delivery
18 204 (5.61%) Customer Service
19 201 (5.52%) Risk Management
20 199 (5.47%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 551 (15.14%) SQL
2 509 (13.99%) Python
3 306 (8.41%) JavaScript
4 293 (8.05%) C#
5 232 (6.38%) Java
6 175 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 112 (3.08%) C++
8 65 (1.79%) C
9 56 (1.54%) Bash
10 54 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 42 (1.15%) MATLAB
12 41 (1.13%) R
13 37 (1.02%) Perl
14 35 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 28 (0.77%) Go
15 28 (0.77%) VBA
16 27 (0.74%) Scala
17 24 (0.66%) Shell Script
18 23 (0.63%) Rust
19 21 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 791 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 546 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 422 (11.60%) Master's Degree
4 378 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 187 (5.14%) DV Cleared
6 138 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
7 122 (3.35%) PMI Certification
8 112 (3.08%) PMP
9 102 (2.80%) CISSP
9 102 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 87 (2.39%) CCNA
11 81 (2.23%) PhD
12 71 (1.95%) Azure Certification
13 64 (1.76%) CCNP
14 53 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
14 53 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
15 50 (1.37%) CISM
16 47 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
17 38 (1.04%) HND
18 31 (0.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (5.50%) QA
2 100 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.09%) GDPR
4 72 (1.98%) PMO
4 72 (1.98%) SLA
5 48 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.26%) NIST
7 45 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 43 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (0.60%) GRC
10 18 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
11 16 (0.44%) GxP
12 15 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.36%) MiFID
15 12 (0.33%) COBIT
15 12 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
15 12 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 11 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 287 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 117 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (2.12%) Docker
4 53 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 44 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.15%) Firmware
7 32 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (0.88%) vSphere
8 26 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (0.71%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.47%) KVM
10 15 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.11%) vCloud
13 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.055%) NFS
14 2 (0.055%) XenApp
15 1 (0.027%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 126 (3.46%) SCCM
2 110 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 84 (2.31%) Terraform
4 57 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (1.18%) SCOM
6 41 (1.13%) Ansible
7 40 (1.10%) WSUS
8 32 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 30 (0.82%) vCenter Server
10 26 (0.71%) NetBackup
11 23 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
13 14 (0.38%) Grafana
14 12 (0.33%) Nagios
15 11 (0.30%) Kibana
16 10 (0.27%) logstash
16 10 (0.27%) PingFederate
17 9 (0.25%) Argo
17 9 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
17 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 763 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.62%) PayPal
3 205 (5.63%) Oracle
4 195 (5.36%) SAP
5 137 (3.76%) Cisco
5 137 (3.76%) VMware
6 124 (3.41%) Google
7 95 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 73 (2.01%) Adobe
9 59 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 57 (1.57%) EMC
11 50 (1.37%) Atlassian
12 49 (1.35%) HP
13 40 (1.10%) Juniper
14 38 (1.04%) Citrix
14 38 (1.04%) IBM
15 35 (0.96%) Databricks
16 32 (0.88%) Palo Alto
17 28 (0.77%) Apple
18 24 (0.66%) Red Hat